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SSE Puts a Record €7.25 Million Into Communities North and South — and 386 Local Projects Are Getting the Money
SSE's All-Island Community Investment Review for 2025/26 shows a record €7.25 million reaching 386 projects and 80 scholarship students across the island of Ireland, lifting total community funding since 2001 past €26 million. From wind farm host communities in Offaly to island-wide sustainability grants, here is where the money is actually going.
Ireland Finally Has a Water Number for Its Data Centres — 46 Billion Litres, and a Case for Publishing the Real Ones
New research from Maynooth University, UCD and the Autonomous University of Barcelona estimates the water footprint of Ireland's data centre electricity at 125.9 million litres a day in 2025 — around 46 billion litres a year. The bigger finding is how easily better figures could be published.
An Post Hit Its 2030 Carbon Target Five Years Early — and It's Just Getting Started
An Post achieved a 50% carbon reduction against its 2009 baseline in September 2025, three months ahead of a target it had already brought forward from 2030. With Ireland's largest electric delivery fleet, 95% of heavy goods vehicles running on HVO and 99% of buildings powered by renewable energy, the semi-state is now targeting net zero by 2030.
How Lidl Ireland Is Building One of the Most Ambitious Sustainability Programmes in Irish Retail
Lidl Ireland was named the Most Sustainable Supermarket in Ireland for the second consecutive year in the 2025 Ireland RepTrak Sustainability Index. From Ireland's first net-zero supermarket to Scope 1 and 2 climate neutrality, the retailer has assembled one of the most concrete sustainability programmes in Irish retail.
CSRD in Ireland 2026: What Has Changed, Who Is Affected and What Your Business Needs to Do Now
Omnibus 1 is in force. Stop-the-Clock has delayed Wave 2 and Wave 3 reporters by two years. The ESRS standards have been simplified, the CSDDD deadline pushed to July 2027 — and Irish-listed SMEs face a transposition anomaly all of their own. Inside who is still in scope, who has been deferred and what SMEs face from value chain pressure.
Data Centres in Ireland: The Benefits Are Real, the Costs Are Real, and the Decisions Can't Wait
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